After their meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague this week, Israel’s Minister of Intelligence Affairs Dr. Yuval Steinitz and Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird announced the launching of a joint project to develop technologies for identifying the source of nuclear terror attacks.
The technology identifies the origin of the nuclear material, implicating the provider of these hazardous materials to terror groups. The development of such technologies is an imperative step in the international war on nuclear terror, as Minister Steinitz explained: “Due to terror threats in the Middle East and worldwide, developing technology to detect the source of a nuclear attack has become of the outmost significance. These detection abilities will serve as a deterrent for countries who might consider collaborating with terror groups using a nuclear bomb in a terror plot.” Minister Baird remarked that “the nuclear terror threat currently remains one of the most significant challenges to national security. The cooperation between Israel and Canada will aid Middle Eastern and other countries to pursue terrorists who are involved in illegal terror related trade.”
This project will be executed as part of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terror (GICNT), an international partnership of 85 nations and four observers who are committed to working to implement a set of shared nuclear security principles, of which Canada and Israel are members. The project, one of over 50 multilateral activities, will be funded by Canada.